diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 19e28fb6e..678e39a34 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ crossbeam = "0.8"
 futures = { version = "0.3.15", features = ["thread-pool"] }
 tantivy-query-grammar = { version="0.15.0", path="./query-grammar" }
 tantivy-bitpacker = { version="0.1", path="./bitpacker" }
-common = { version="0.1", path="./common" }
+common = { version = "0.1", path = "./common/", package = "tantivy-common" }
 fastfield_codecs = { version="0.1", path="./fastfield_codecs", default-features = false }
 ownedbytes = { version="0.1", path="./ownedbytes" }
 stable_deref_trait = "1.2"
diff --git a/common/Cargo.toml b/common/Cargo.toml
index 94ff9ee56..d262da05e 100644
--- a/common/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "common"
+name = "tantivy-common"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["Paul Masurel <paul@quickwit.io>", "Pascal Seitz <pascal@quickwit.io>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/fastfield_codecs/Cargo.toml b/fastfield_codecs/Cargo.toml
index 10ffca2df..3b813daa5 100644
--- a/fastfield_codecs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fastfield_codecs/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ description = "Fast field codecs used by tantivy"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
-common = { path = "../common/" }
+common = { version = "0.1", path = "../common/", package = "tantivy-common" }
 tantivy-bitpacker = { path = "../bitpacker/" }
 prettytable-rs = {version="0.8.0", optional= true}
 rand = {version="0.8.3", optional= true}