Mark is working on the archive query API which is great, thanks.
Mark asked me to email debian-dak about canonicalising suites.
FTR my current rune for this is
| ssh 'iwj@mirror.ftp-master.debian.org' 'export LANG=C; psql -A
service=projectb -c '\'' SELECT suite.codename
FROM suite where
suite_name='\'''\\''\'''\''unstable'\'''\\''\'''\'' or
codename='\'''\\''\'''\''unstable'\'''\\''\'''\'';
'\'''
Thanks,
Ian.