How can I satisfy an import of direct_to_template?

direct_to_template has been deprecated. In django 1.5 try using a class based view TemplateView in urls.py

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='homepage.html'), name="home"),
)

There's some information on migrating to version 1.4 (when it was deprecated) here.

Besides the class-based view TemplateView, you can also use the render function like this:

from django.shortcuts import render

urlpatterns = patterns("",
    url(r'^$', lambda request: render(request, 'homepage.html'), name="home"),
)