How to Fix "The file server has closed down" issues in Mac OS and netatalk

Netatalk versions older than 2.1.3 had some issues with the TCP/IP Stack on Linux which resulted in errors like

Luckily they seem to have fixed this in 2.1.3 as the ChangeLog states: fix a serious error in networking IO code.

So the solution is as easy as upgrading. I am running Ubuntu, but two months after netatalk-2.1.3 has been released, they don’t even have it in unstable. Lucky Gentoo users you! I needed to fix this very quickly as it started to disrupt my workflow. Sadly I currently don’t have the time to dig into the packaging system of Debian or Ubuntu, so I looked up Debian’s configure options and just compiled from source:

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cp -a /etc/netatalk/ ~
aptitude purge netatalk
apt-get build-dep netatalk
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/files/netatalk/2.1.3/netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2/download
tar xjvf netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2
cd netatalk-2.1.3
./configure  --with-shadow --enable-fhs --enable-tcp-wrappers --enable-timelord --enable-overwrite --with-pkgconfdir=/etc/netatalk --enable-krb4-uam --enable-krbV-uam --with-cnid-dbd-txn --with-libgcrypt-dir --with-cracklib=/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict --enable-debian --disable-srvloc --enable-zeroconf --with-ssl-dir --enable-pgp-uam --prefix=/usr/local/netatalk/
make
sudo make install
mv ~/netatalk /etc/
/etc/init.d/netatalk start

This saves a copy of your running netatalk configuration to your home directory, removes netatalk, downloads all necessary libraries to build netatalk, downloads netatalk from SourceForge, extracts it, configures it, builds it, installs it, restores the configuration and starts it as usual.

I am running netatalk 2.1.3 for a week now and the error seems to be gone

If you know how to easily create a Debian package, feel free to post in the comments.