As of com.google.api:api-common:v2.3.1[1] com.google.auto.value:auto-value has compile scope causing it to be included as a transitive dependency.

In com.google.api:api-common:v2.2.2[2], auto-value is not present in the compile dependency list.

I suspect this happened when the switch from gradle to maven was going on. We might need to update some config [3].

[1] https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.google.api/api-common/2.3.1
[2] https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.google.api/api-common/2.2.2
[3] https://github.com/google/auto/blob/main/value/userguide/index.md#with-maven

Originally raised as a java-storage issue in googleapis/java-storage#1973