While investigating https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015969
I discovered rhel5 now includes the gnupg2 package, so it ought to be removed from epel-5. Thanks.
moving to releng trac instance...
This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/steering/issues/3
Please continue any further discussion there.