diff --git a/naga/Cargo.toml b/naga/Cargo.toml
index 1d44729c9f..a13e4f9196 100644
--- a/naga/Cargo.toml
+++ b/naga/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ criterion = { version = "0.5", features = [] }
 bincode = "1"
 diff = "0.1"
 env_logger = "0.10"
-hlsl-snapshots = { version = "0.1.0", path = "./hlsl-snapshots" }
+# This _cannot_ have a version specified. If it does, crates.io will look
+# for a version of the package on crates when we publish naga. Path dependencies
+# are allowed through though.
+hlsl-snapshots = { path = "./hlsl-snapshots" }
 # Require at least version 0.7.1 of ron, this version changed how floating points are
 # serialized by forcing them to always have the decimal part, this makes it backwards
 # incompatible with our tests because we do a syntatic diff and not a semantic one.