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If you want to use Debian with a rolling release, you should be using Sid and not Testing, namely because Testing is the next release's branch and lags behind Sid at times. For security reasons either use Stable which has its security patches backported, or Sid where patches are provided as quickly as the package is put in the repo.
There's arguments that Testing/Sid aren't truly rolling because they're frozen for several months when it's near a final release of the next stable branch, but I've been using Sid on my main machines for almost a decade now, and it's not something I really think about aside from once every two years.