It seems a lot of history has been hidden when bug #690227 was merged into this ticket. I've summarized the history below for the benefit of other users that are interested in using netatalk 3.x. Please correct me if I got something wrong or missed something.
But the question remains...given that: - netatalk 3.0 was released on 25 months ago - was initially packaged 22 months ago - was repackaged using cdbs 17 months ago - you stated your intent to upgrade the package to 3.x 7 months ago - jessie freeze happens in 2 months will we see a netatalk 3.x package in jessie? 2012/7/9 - netatalk 3.0 released upstream 2012/10/11 - Hideki started working on a 3.0.1 package using dh style instead of cdbs, but it was declined because of Jonas' wish to stick with cdbs 2013/3/18 - Igor posted a 3.0.1 cdbs package 2013/4/12 - Martin updated the cdbs package to 3.0.3 2014/1/11 - Tony built a 3.0.6 deb 2014/1/11 - Tony articulated the need for 3.0.6 due to problems w. time machine 2014/1/11 - Jonas stated intent to upgrade to 3.x but cited lack of time 2014/1/14 - Adrian cleaned up tony's 3.0.6 package and posted it 2014/2/10 - Jonas stated intent to continue to maintain the netatalk package & opened a mailing list on alioth 2014/4/18 - Brian cleaned up & updated adi's package to 3.1.1 2014/4/19 - Chris suggested to get netatalk 3.x into experimental asap to get it ready for jessie 2014/4/20 - Chris, Brian & Jonas collaborated & pushed 2.2.5 2014/8/4 - Adrian updated the package to 3.1.3 2014/8/27 - HAT reported that 3.1.6 is available relevant references: adi's package (currently @ 3.1.3): https://github.com/adiknoth/netatalk-debian deb...@bootc.net fork of adi's 3.0.6 package (currently @ 3.1.1) http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-netatalk/netatalk.git/log/?h=netatalk3 last mailing list discussion about 3.x: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-netatalk-devel/Week-of-Mon-20140414/000032.html