I was curious about this myself, so I ended up discussing it with some colleagues. I don’t have a complete answer for you, but I do have some general thoughts.
The new .ips format does not seem to provide a way to know whether a
binary is part of macOS.
…
Is it really the case?
Yes. If, after reading the rest of this response, you still think the JSON should include this info specifically, I encourage you to file an enhancement request to that effect. Please post your bug number, just for the record.
how is it supposed to be determine now?
Apple’s crash reporter is not doing anything clever here. It applies a plus (+
) to non-Apple code, where Apple code has either:
How valuable is that? I’m not entirely sure. It’s certainly not hard to spoof, but it does provide a quick way to identify potential issues.
*shrug*
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