diff --git a/cairo.changes b/cairo.changes
index e1afced..6dd2a3f 100644
--- a/cairo.changes
+++ b/cairo.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Dec 10 12:34:56 CET 2008 - olh@suse.de
+
+- use Obsoletes: -XXbit only for ppc64 to help solver during distupgrade
+  (bnc#437293)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Nov 11 16:54:06 CET 2008 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/cairo.spec b/cairo.spec
index c937d4f..a40e87a 100644
--- a/cairo.spec
+++ b/cairo.spec
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Group:          Development/Libraries/X11
 Summary:        Vector Graphics Library with Cross-Device Output Support
 Url:            http://cairographics.org/
 Version:        1.8.0
-Release:        4
+Release:        5
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch1:         cairo-ac.patch
 # PATCH-NEEDS-REBASE bugzilla-104365.patch bnc104365 -- it needs a rename too!
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ Provides:       libpixman <= 0.1.1
 %ifarch ppc64
 Obsoletes:      cairo-64bit
 %endif
-%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
-Obsoletes:      cairo-32bit
-%endif
 #
 
 %description
@@ -90,9 +87,6 @@ Provides:       libpixman-devel <= 0.1.1
 %ifarch ppc64
 Obsoletes:      cairo-devel-64bit
 %endif
-%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
-Obsoletes:      cairo-devel-32bit
-%endif
 #
 
 %description devel
@@ -175,6 +169,9 @@ rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 10 2008 olh@suse.de
+- use Obsoletes: -XXbit only for ppc64 to help solver during distupgrade
+  (bnc#437293)
 * Tue Nov 11 2008 ro@suse.de
 - SLE-11 uses PPC64 instead of PPC, adapt baselibs.conf
 * Tue Nov 04 2008 maw@suse.de