Package: libdbd-oracle-perl Version: 1.19-2 Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Joost van Baal Installed-Size: 620 Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-18), perlapi-5.10.0 Filename: lenny/libdbd-oracle-perl/libdbd-oracle-perl_1.19-2_i386.deb Size: 258450 MD5sum: 904ee64e140688197ee4251bda010432 SHA1: 1999217a2807444e7f5ed7ac4930feea93175412 SHA256: cb673a73ef44c0fbd0ab88b4f2889f8ff4b0a31b2566e439ab348bdc71d173af Section: perl Priority: optional Description: Perl access to Oracle databases for old oraperl scripts Oraperl is an extension to Perl which allows access to Oracle databases. . The original oraperl was a Perl 4 binary with Oracle OCI compiled into it. The Perl 5 Oraperl module described here is distributed with DBD::Oracle (a database driver what operates within DBI) and adds an extra layer over DBI method calls. The Oraperl module should only be used to allow existing Perl 4 oraperl scripts to run with minimal changes; any new development should use DBI directly. . The functions which make up this extension are described in the following sections. All functions return a false or undefined (in the Perl sense) value to indicate failure. You do not need to understand the references to OCI in these descriptions. They are here to help those who wish to extend the routines or to port them to new machines. . You'll need stuff in ORACLE_HOME for this package to work for you.