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How are these long-term support Linux distros able to provide LTS for the thousands of packages they include?

If a security bug is discovered in an old version of RabbitMQ do the distro maintainers learn Erlang/OTP to patch the bug?

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Alma/Rocky are just rebuilds of RHEL. And afaik, Red Hat does employ people to do that.

And, the package selection in RHEL is much smaller than in, say, Debian or Ubuntu [1]. There are the popular EPEL repositories with lots of extra packages, but these are community-maintained on a best-effort basis.

[1] And I think the Ubuntu 'guarantees' only apply to the 'main' repository, not the MUCH larger 'universe'.

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