I haven't followed this thread at all, but while building Tails Jessie
with that branch in it failed because of the redirection from
http://people.torproject.org/ to
https://people.torproject.org/.
So why not using
https:// instead of
http:// in
config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/tails/tbb-dist-url.txt.
I'm not saying that the branch doesn't work but it really failed for me
maybe because I still use some weird proxying based on squid-deb-proxy...