I am the proud owner of a Thinkpad X1 that has just been bricked by a Debian recommended update visa-vis the Gnome software app and LVFS. While the root cause of this seems to be Lenovo's lack of interest in quality control and testing, this cornucopia of agony should not be mindlessly spoon fed by Debian. Since history shows in many cases more than my own, that firmware updates from vendors cannot be trusted, I propose that Debian not actively advertise a firmware release to users until the release has been in the wild for at least 6 months or has been rigorously tested by a trusted third party or Debian developers.
Note that I am not seeking technical advice for my specific issue, but rather to start a discussion about policy governing how firmware updates are distributed in Debian.
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