Given the feedback from the Debian Maintainer, and my own personal bias against adding .desktop files for CLI apps, I'm marking this wontfix. Those with interest in using the provided Debian menu may be interested in the very wide number of menu files for terminal applications available in the Debian menu after installing menu-xdg.
** Changed in: irssi (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- Make a menu item for Irssi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511912 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs