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Stupid gedit won’t save to cifs share (ubuntu 9.10 karmic)

So stupid gedit (which is fantastic on all other ways) won't save to a cifs mounted share properly because of an unsupported copy option. Robbie Basak has provided a patched version that overcomes this issue. To install this in karmic, do the following:
AMD64:

cd /tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/~racb/+archive/fixes/+files/gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_amd64.deb

i386:

cd /tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/~racb/+archive/fixes/+files/gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gedit_2.28.0-0ubuntu2~basak1_i386.deb

I believe that redhat has updated the version in their repos, perhaps Shuttleworth et al should do the same...