Please branch and build cowsay in epel9. If you do not wish to maintain cowsay in epel9, or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner, the EPEL Packagers SIG would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package; please add the epel-packagers-sig group through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cowsay/addgroup and grant it commit access, or collaborator access on epel* branches.
I have just added epel-packagers-sig as collaborator for the epel* branches. I suggest forking epel9 off the current cowsay-3.7.0-6 (rawhide, f37, f36): That builds OOTB for el9 according, and I expect it to be easy to update without significant user visible changes Enterprise environments abhor when the upstream cowsay-3.8.0 release happens.
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-6710c920f9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-6710c920f9
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-6710c920f9 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-6710c920f9 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2022-6710c920f9 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.