diff --git a/attr.changes b/attr.changes
index 1aacb73..4b420fe 100644
--- a/attr.changes
+++ b/attr.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 16:53:59 CET 2008 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/attr.spec b/attr.spec
index 6a674f7..dc30712 100644
--- a/attr.spec
+++ b/attr.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Group:          System/Filesystems
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Summary:        Commands for Manipulating Extended Attributes
 Version:        2.4.39
-Release:        66
+Release:        67
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.src.tar.bz2
 Source1:        xattr.conf
 Patch0:         builddefs.in.diff
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ AutoReqProv:    on
 %ifarch ppc64
 Obsoletes:      libattr-64bit
 %endif
-%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
-Obsoletes:      libattr-32bit
-%endif
 #
 Group:          System/Libraries
 
@@ -84,9 +81,6 @@ Obsoletes:      attr-devel
 %ifarch ppc64
 Obsoletes:      libattr-devel-64bit
 %endif
-%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
-Obsoletes:      libattr-devel-32bit
-%endif
 #
 Requires:       libattr = %{version}
 
@@ -192,6 +186,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/xattr.conf
 
 %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
 * Thu Oct 30 2008 olh@suse.de