Default UserCreationForm and UserChangeForm hard-coded to User; is this required?

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended, hence my asking here before adding to the bug database.

In django.contrib.auth.forms, the UserCreationForm and UserChangeForm refer several times to the User model directly, rather than using get_user_model().

This means that when using a different model for the user model, you can't use the Django admin unless you create a custom form that overrides this behavior.

When I change this in the Django codebase to refer to get_user_model(), it works just fine -- both with the standard Django User model and with a custom user model. So, it *appears* that this could work fine as a code fix for Django.

It's possible, though, that there's a subtlety I'm missing and that these should continue to refer to User proper.

Thoughts, anyone?

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