diff --git a/darwin/package-macos-for-dart.sh b/darwin/package-macos-for-dart.sh
index cc608ff..502a956 100755
--- a/darwin/package-macos-for-dart.sh
+++ b/darwin/package-macos-for-dart.sh
@@ -34,12 +34,34 @@ mkdir -p $stdlib_dir
 
 # copy Python.xcframework
 rsync -av --exclude-from=$script_dir/python-darwin-framework.exclude $python_apple_support_root/support/$python_version_short/macOS/Python.xcframework $frameworks_dir
-cp -r $script_dir/Modules $frameworks_dir/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework
-mkdir -p $frameworks_dir/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework/Headers
-cp -r $python_apple_support_root/support/$python_version_short/macOS/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework/Versions/$python_version_short/include/python$python_version_short/* $frameworks_dir/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework/Headers
+# Overlay the module map and public headers.
+#
+# macOS frameworks are VERSIONED bundles: everything at the framework root must be
+# a symlink into Versions/Current, and only `Versions` itself is a real directory.
+# These used to be written as real directories at the root, which codesign rejects
+# outright once the framework is signed in its own right:
+#
+#   Python.framework: unsealed contents present in the root directory of an
+#   embedded framework
+#
+# That went unnoticed while only the outer xcframework was signed. Write them into
+# Versions/Current and symlink from the root, which is both what codesign requires
+# and what CPython's own macOS framework does for Headers and Resources.
+macos_fw=$frameworks_dir/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework
+[ -d "$macos_fw/Versions/Current" ] || {
+    echo "expected a versioned macOS framework at $macos_fw"; exit 1; }
+
+cp -r $script_dir/Modules "$macos_fw/Versions/Current/"
+mkdir -p "$macos_fw/Versions/Current/Headers"
+cp -r $python_apple_support_root/support/$python_version_short/macOS/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework/Versions/$python_version_short/include/python$python_version_short/* "$macos_fw/Versions/Current/Headers"
 # The built-in modulemap (if the source framework shipped one) is replaced by the
 # overlaid darwin/Modules/module.modulemap above; -f tolerates builds without one.
-rm -f $frameworks_dir/Python.xcframework/macos-arm64_x86_64/Python.framework/Headers/module.modulemap
+rm -f "$macos_fw/Versions/Current/Headers/module.modulemap"
+
+for _d in Headers Modules; do
+    rm -rf "$macos_fw/$_d"
+    ln -sfn "Versions/Current/$_d" "$macos_fw/$_d"
+done
 
 # Last mutation of the bundle: stable, provider-owned identifier for the Python
 # runtime, replacing CPython's shared `org.python.python`. The macOS framework is
diff --git a/darwin/xcframework_signing.sh b/darwin/xcframework_signing.sh
index 414f2e4..eda83bf 100644
--- a/darwin/xcframework_signing.sh
+++ b/darwin/xcframework_signing.sh
@@ -285,7 +285,12 @@ xcf_verify_one() {
     local fw count=0
     while IFS= read -r fw; do
         [ -n "$fw" ] || continue
-        if [ ! -d "$fw/_CodeSignature" ] && [ ! -d "$fw/Versions/A/_CodeSignature" ]; then
+        # `codesign -dv` rather than probing for a _CodeSignature directory: a
+        # versioned bundle keeps it at Versions/<name>/_CodeSignature, and the
+        # version directory is not always "A" (CPython's macOS framework uses the
+        # Python version, e.g. Versions/3.14). codesign exits non-zero with
+        # "code object is not signed at all", which is the question being asked.
+        if ! codesign -dv "$fw" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
             xcf_err "$fw: inner framework is unsigned"
             return 1
         fi