diff --git a/startup-notification.changes b/startup-notification.changes
index 61afc5c..0c9296d 100644
--- a/startup-notification.changes
+++ b/startup-notification.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan  7 12:34:56 CET 2009 - olh@suse.de
+
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 10 12:54:45 CEST 2008 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/startup-notification.spec b/startup-notification.spec
index d06eb43..26a1363 100644
--- a/startup-notification.spec
+++ b/startup-notification.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 #
 # spec file for package startup-notification (Version 0.9)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
-# This file and all modifications and additions to the pristine
-# package are under the same license as the package itself.
+# Copyright (c) 2009 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
+# All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
+# remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
+# upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the
+# file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the
+# license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which
+# case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a
+# license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
+# published by the Open Source Initiative.
+
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
@@ -17,10 +24,15 @@ Url:            http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification
 License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/X11/Utilities
 Version:        0.9
-Release:        59
+Release:        103
 Summary:        Reference Implementation for the Startup-Notification Protocol
 Source:         startup-notification-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+# bug437293
+%ifarch ppc64
+Obsoletes:      startup-notification-64bit
+%endif
+#
 
 %description
 Startup-notification contains a reference implementation of the
@@ -37,6 +49,11 @@ License:        GPL v2 or later
 Summary:        Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development.
 Group:          Development/Libraries/GNOME
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version} glibc-devel xorg-x11-libX11-devel xorg-x11-libSM-devel xorg-x11-libICE-devel
+# bug437293
+%ifarch ppc64
+Obsoletes:      startup-notification-devel-64bit
+%endif
+#
 
 %description devel
 This package contains all necessary include files and libraries needed
@@ -86,6 +103,8 @@ make %{?jobs:-j %jobs}
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jan 07 2009 olh@suse.de
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
 * Thu Apr 10 2008 ro@suse.de
 - added baselibs.conf file to build xxbit packages
   for multilib support