diff --git a/android/filegroup.go b/android/filegroup.go
index e5eec87..6b11172 100644
--- a/android/filegroup.go
+++ b/android/filegroup.go
@@ -120,9 +120,13 @@
 		ctx.CreateBazelTargetModule(props, CommonAttributes{Name: fg.Name()}, attrs)
 	} else {
 		if fg.ShouldConvertToProtoLibrary(ctx) {
+			// TODO(b/246997908): we can remove this tag if we could figure out a
+			// solution for this bug.
+			tags := []string{"manual"}
 			attrs := &ProtoAttrs{
 				Srcs:                srcs,
 				Strip_import_prefix: fg.properties.Path,
+				Tags:                tags,
 			}
 
 			ctx.CreateBazelTargetModule(
diff --git a/android/proto.go b/android/proto.go
index 3a5d4da..3cac9a1 100644
--- a/android/proto.go
+++ b/android/proto.go
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
 	Srcs                bazel.LabelListAttribute
 	Strip_import_prefix *string
 	Deps                bazel.LabelListAttribute
+	Tags                []string
 }
 
 // For each package in the include_dirs property a proto_library target should
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@
 		attrs := ProtoAttrs{
 			Srcs: bazel.MakeLabelListAttribute(directProtoSrcs),
 		}
+		attrs.Deps.Append(bazel.MakeLabelListAttribute(protoLibraries))
 
 		for axis, configToProps := range m.GetArchVariantProperties(ctx, &ProtoProperties{}) {
 			for _, rawProps := range configToProps {