Please branch and build appliance-tools in epel9. If you do not wish to maintain <package> in epel9, or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner, I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package.
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-b55047e4ff has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-b55047e4ff
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-b55047e4ff has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.