An NMU of medit was just uploaded today to fix bug #504767. The patch
is an upstream patch, included in last upstream version and got the
blessing of the upstream author.
Changelog:
medit (0.9.2-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Backport an upstream patch that fixes truncating files bug
    due to a character set conversion bug. Closes: #504767
 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:56:04 +0100
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