Adobe AIR ignores Android uses-sdk in the manifest

We're trying to set the uses-sdk setting on the Android Manifest. But Adobe AIR seems to be ignoring this and not copying it over. I have other custom items in the manifest, and they are being copied over. What am I doing wrong?
I've tried:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="10" />
And this, which is straight from the docs: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WSfffb011ac560372f-5d0f4f25128cc9cd0cb-7ffc.html
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8"></uses-sdk>
Our app descriptor looks like this. The uses-configuration gets included in the output manifest, but the uses-sdk is completely missing.
<android>
        <manifestAdditions><![CDATA[
                              <manifest android:installLocation="auto">
                                        <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="10" />
                                        <uses-configuration android:reqTouchScreen="finger" />
                                        <supports-screens
                                                  android:smallScreens="false"
                                                  android:normalScreens="true"
                                                  android:largeScreens="true"
                                                  android:xlargeScreens="true"
                                                  android:anyDensity="true"/>
                                  <application>
                                          </application>
                              </manifest>
                    ]]></manifestAdditions>
    </android>

If you are decoding the binary application.xml and searching for the minSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion version properties, then i am afraid you will not find them.
"apktool" used to reverse engineer APK files creates a file apktool.yaml which contains these values.
Also could you please elaborate how do you think these values are being ignored? Is there any API that you are not able to use.
Thanks,
Rajat

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