androiddeployqt requires a manifest 'package' attribute, which is deprecated in Gradle 7.x

I'm in the process of upgrading the Gradle version in our Qt Android project from Gradle 4.1.0 to 7.4.1. This newer version of Gradle deprecates the use of a 'package' attribute in the 'manifest' element of the AndroidManifest.xml file. We have this in our AndroidManifest.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest
  package="com.trimble.access"
  ...etc> 

When I build the project, Gradle reports a warning about 'package' being deprecated:

package="com.trimble.access" found in source AndroidManifest.xml: C:\dev\access\Survey\Android-ARM64-Release\android-build\AndroidManifest.xml.
Setting the namespace via a source AndroidManifest.xml's package attribute is deprecated.
Please instead set the namespace (or testNamespace) in the module's build.gradle file, as described here: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/configure-app-module#set-namespace 

I tried doing exactly what this warning suggested - removing the 'package' attribute from the manifest, and adding a 'namespace' setting in the build.gradle file:

android {
    namespace = "com.trimble.access"
    ...etc
}

But now the build fails entirely, as androiddeployqt reports a fatal error:

Invalid android manifest file: C:/dev/Android-ARM64-Release/android-build/AndroidManifest.xml

I found the source code for androiddeployqt on code.qt.io, and it's clear that it's going to unconditionally fail with this error if the 'package' attribute is not present:

    if (!reader.attributes().hasAttribute("package"_L1)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Invalid android manifest file: %s\n", qPrintable(androidManifestPath));
        return false;
    } 

Now that the 'package' attribute is not only optional, but deprecated, this check no longer makes sense.