diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0104c13aaa..e6102dc7aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ name = "client"
 path = "src/rust/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-google-api-client = { version = "4.0", path = "google-api-client" }
+google-apis-common = { version = "4.0", path = "google-apis-common" }
 clap = "2"
 http = "^0.2"
 hyper = "0.14"
diff --git a/google-api-client/Cargo.toml b/google-apis-common/Cargo.toml
similarity index 93%
rename from google-api-client/Cargo.toml
rename to google-apis-common/Cargo.toml
index 0325ec1a77..eb6eb1ebf5 100644
--- a/google-api-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/google-apis-common/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "google-api-client"
+name = "google-apis-common"
 version = "4.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
diff --git a/google-api-client/src/lib.rs b/google-apis-common/src/lib.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from google-api-client/src/lib.rs
rename to google-apis-common/src/lib.rs
diff --git a/src/generator/templates/Cargo.toml.mako b/src/generator/templates/Cargo.toml.mako
index 87a22f2f22..584e9755fe 100644
--- a/src/generator/templates/Cargo.toml.mako
+++ b/src/generator/templates/Cargo.toml.mako
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ serde = { version = "^ 1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "^ 1.0"
 itertools = "^ 0.10"
 % if 'is_executable' not in cargo:
-google-api-client = { path = "../../google-api-client" }
+google-apis-common = { path = "../../google-apis-common", version = "4.0" }
 % endif
 % for dep in cargo.get('dependencies', list()):
 ${dep}
diff --git a/src/generator/templates/api/lib.rs.mako b/src/generator/templates/api/lib.rs.mako
index b512c62d97..1bf1ef0faa 100644
--- a/src/generator/templates/api/lib.rs.mako
+++ b/src/generator/templates/api/lib.rs.mako
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ${lib.docs(c)}
 // Re-export the hyper and hyper_rustls crate, they are required to build the hub
 pub use hyper;
 pub use hyper_rustls;
-pub extern crate google_api_client as client;
+pub extern crate google_apis_common as client;
 
 pub mod api;
 
diff --git a/src/rust/api/client.rs b/src/rust/api/client.rs
index 6fdf1ba1f4..c7ad4dd216 100644
--- a/src/rust/api/client.rs
+++ b/src/rust/api/client.rs
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 //! This file serves on purpose and is an artifact of the buildsystem.
-//! Its content can now be found in the `google-api-client` crate.
\ No newline at end of file
+//! Its content can now be found in the `google-apis-common` crate.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/rust/lib.rs b/src/rust/lib.rs
index 78937a81de..185b0c27b7 100644
--- a/src/rust/lib.rs
+++ b/src/rust/lib.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ extern crate strsim;
 
 // just pull it in the check if it compiles
 mod cli;
-use google_api_client as api;
+use google_apis_common as api;
 
 /// This module is for testing only, its code is used in mako templates
 #[cfg(test)]