diff --git a/bzip2.changes b/bzip2.changes
index dd7388d..0f45925 100644
--- a/bzip2.changes
+++ b/bzip2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 30 12:34:56 CET 2008 - olh@suse.de
+
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug  1 02:51:44 CEST 2008 - jw@suse.de
 
diff --git a/bzip2.spec b/bzip2.spec
index 24a4f6a..258b369 100644
--- a/bzip2.spec
+++ b/bzip2.spec
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
 # spec file for package bzip2 (Version 1.0.5)
 #
 # 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.
 #
+# 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/
 #
 
@@ -13,12 +20,20 @@
 
 Name:           bzip2
 Version:        1.0.5
-Release:        20
+Release:        33
 Provides:       bzip 
 Obsoletes:      bzip
 # The following is a kludge to get updating bzip2 to after the split work
 PreReq:         libbz2-1
 AutoReqProv:    on
+# bug437293
+%ifarch ppc64
+Obsoletes:      bzip2-64bit
+%endif
+%ifarch  %ix86 ppc
+Obsoletes:      bzip2-32bit
+%endif
+#
 Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 License:        BSD 3-Clause
 Url:            http://www.bzip.org/
@@ -164,6 +179,8 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_libdir}/libbz2.so
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 30 2008 olh@suse.de
+- obsolete old -XXbit packages (bnc#437293)
 * Fri Aug 01 2008 jw@suse.de
 - added missing header to bznew [bnc#413261]
 * Wed May 14 2008 coolo@suse.de
@@ -249,7 +266,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - re-added /usr/include/bzlib.h
 * Thu Mar 08 2001 bk@suse.de
 - Replaced the -malign options with -mcpu=pentiumpro
-* Wed Mar 07 2001 bk@suse.de
+* Tue Mar 06 2001 bk@suse.de
 - add version info to libbz2 link to fix the library version number
 - if i386, add -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
 * Thu Nov 30 2000 aj@suse.de