diff --git a/android/filegroup.go b/android/filegroup.go
index e5eec87cf..6b1117230 100644
--- a/android/filegroup.go
+++ b/android/filegroup.go
@@ -120,9 +120,13 @@ func (fg *fileGroup) ConvertWithBp2build(ctx TopDownMutatorContext) {
 		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 3a5d4da5c..3cac9a185 100644
--- a/android/proto.go
+++ b/android/proto.go
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ type ProtoAttrs struct {
 	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 @@ func Bp2buildProtoProperties(ctx Bp2buildMutatorContext, m *ModuleBase, srcs baz
 		attrs := ProtoAttrs{
 			Srcs: bazel.MakeLabelListAttribute(directProtoSrcs),
 		}
+		attrs.Deps.Append(bazel.MakeLabelListAttribute(protoLibraries))
 
 		for axis, configToProps := range m.GetArchVariantProperties(ctx, &ProtoProperties{}) {
 			for _, rawProps := range configToProps {
diff --git a/bp2build/cc_library_conversion_test.go b/bp2build/cc_library_conversion_test.go
index ba7af0945..12cffc304 100644
--- a/bp2build/cc_library_conversion_test.go
+++ b/bp2build/cc_library_conversion_test.go
@@ -2284,6 +2284,7 @@ cc_library {
 }`,
 		ExpectedBazelTargets: []string{
 			MakeBazelTarget("proto_library", "a_proto", AttrNameToString{
+				"deps": `[":a_fg_proto_bp2build_converted"]`,
 				"srcs": `["a.proto"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTarget("cc_lite_proto_library", "a_cc_proto_lite", AttrNameToString{
 				"deps": `[
@@ -2298,6 +2299,7 @@ cc_library {
 				"whole_archive_deps": `[":a_cc_proto_lite"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("proto_library", "a_fg_proto_bp2build_converted", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs": `["a_fg.proto"]`,
+				"tags": `["manual"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("filegroup", "a_fg_proto", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs": `["a_fg.proto"]`,
 			}),
@@ -2336,6 +2338,7 @@ cc_library {
 				"whole_archive_deps": `[":a_cc_proto_lite"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("proto_library", "a_fg_proto_bp2build_converted", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs": `["a_fg.proto"]`,
+				"tags": `["manual"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("filegroup", "a_fg_proto", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs": `["a_fg.proto"]`,
 			}),
@@ -2368,6 +2371,7 @@ cc_library {
 }`,
 		ExpectedBazelTargets: []string{
 			MakeBazelTarget("proto_library", "a_proto", AttrNameToString{
+				"deps": `["//path/to/A:a_fg_proto_bp2build_converted"]`,
 				"srcs": `["a.proto"]`,
 			}), MakeBazelTarget("cc_lite_proto_library", "a_cc_proto_lite", AttrNameToString{
 				"deps": `[
diff --git a/bp2build/filegroup_conversion_test.go b/bp2build/filegroup_conversion_test.go
index d84d4b374..e978fb319 100644
--- a/bp2build/filegroup_conversion_test.go
+++ b/bp2build/filegroup_conversion_test.go
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ filegroup {
 		ExpectedBazelTargets: []string{
 			MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("proto_library", "foo_bp2build_converted", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs":                `["proto/foo.proto"]`,
-				"strip_import_prefix": `"proto"`}),
+				"strip_import_prefix": `"proto"`,
+				"tags":                `["manual"]`}),
 			MakeBazelTargetNoRestrictions("filegroup", "foo", AttrNameToString{
 				"srcs": `["proto/foo.proto"]`}),
 		}})