nano needs curses.h?

[Lee Winter <lee.j.i.winter@gmail.com>]

The following sequence of commands leads to an error:

mkdir nano
cd nano
apt-get source nano
./configure
make
[... snip ...]
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/home/lee/Work/demos/nano/nano-2.2.6/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
-DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\"    -g -O2 -MT browser.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/browser.Tpo -c -o browser.o browser.c
In file included from proto.h:27:0,
                 from browser.c:24:
nano.h:92:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Should the nano package include curses.h or is some other package a
prerequisite for nano?

Lee Winter
Nashua, New Hampshire
United States of America