diff --git a/interface/src/main/java/xsbti/api/AbstractLazy.java b/interface/src/main/java/xsbti/api/AbstractLazy.java
index bd21f166f..bd49deded 100644
--- a/interface/src/main/java/xsbti/api/AbstractLazy.java
+++ b/interface/src/main/java/xsbti/api/AbstractLazy.java
@@ -3,11 +3,17 @@
  */
 package xsbti.api;
 
-	import java.io.ObjectStreamException;
+import java.io.ObjectStreamException;
 
 public abstract class AbstractLazy<T> implements Lazy<T>, java.io.Serializable
 {
-	private Object writeReplace() throws ObjectStreamException
+	// `writeReplace` must be `protected`, so that the `Impl` subclass
+	// inherits the serialization override.
+	//
+	// (See source-dependencies/java-analysis-serialization-error, which would
+	//  crash trying to serialize an AbstractLazy, because it pulled in an
+	//  unserializable type eventually.)
+	protected Object writeReplace() throws ObjectStreamException
 	{
 		return new StrictLazy<T>(get());
 	}