Source: libdbd-ldap-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libnet-ldap-perl, libdbi-perl Maintainer: Jonas Genannt Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-LDAP/ Package: libdbd-ldap-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libnet-ldap-perl, libdbi-perl Description: Perl extension for LDAP access via an SQL/Perl DBI interface DBD::LDAP is a DBI extension module adding an SQL database interface to standard LDAP databases to Perl's database-independent database interface. You will need access to an existing LDAP database or set up your own using an LDAP server, ie. "OpenLDAP", see (http://www.openldap.org). . The main advantage of DBD::LDAP is the ability to query LDAP databases via standard SQL queries in leu of cryptic LDAP "filters". LDAP is optimized for quick lookup of existing data, but DBD::LDAP does support entry inserts, updates, and deletes with commit/rollback via the standard SQL commands!