5.5-2 didn't build on edgy/feisty because build-deps were changed from lesstif2 to libmotif-dev which is in multiverse. Since the package doesn't work with lesstif2 according to the debian changelog, nedit needs to be moved to multiverse. I opened bug 76571 about this.
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