pristine-tar is nothing but a way to cheaply store the originally upstream tarball in git so that the checksums match. This makes the debian archive software happy. It is thus pretty much orthogonal to whatever packaging approach you want to take.
Assuming you have sponsors that are happy with having all of the changes in the .diff.gz for your package, then having a debian branch with all the changes is fine. channel #debian-mentors on irc.oftc.net is a good place to get help with those kind of questions. David P.S. also waiting for uzbl :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
