Static fails silently

[glassresistor]

Using the default storage engine the static(path) does not fail if the file doesn't exist. It does fail for some storages though.

It should behave like {% static path %} and fail if the path is missing for all storage engines.

[niwinz]

It depends, I think that in majority of circumstances is much better have a broken link that 500 internal server error. It is ok internal server error in development, but the same code is also executed in production, and can happen that some file is missing for some reason, then, your entire page will be down because of one broken link to a static file.