Many more sigs show when I add --with-colons to --list-sigs

Walt Mankowski via Gnupg-users <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:36:31 -0400
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Hi,

I'm trying to understand some odd behavior I'm seeing in gpg. I've had
my key since 1999 and I've got dozens of signatures on it. But when I
run

gpg --list-sigs

I only see my own self-signatures. However, if I add the
--with-colons flag:

gpg --list-sigs --with-colons

then I see what I expected to see, namely dozens of signatures
scrolling for several hundred lines of text. You can see the full
output at

https://gist.github.com/waltman/682b890a8db9244c6cbcb9867f6e8435

I don't see anything in the manpage that suggests that the
--with-colons flag would cause such a radical difference in the
length of the output, only in the formatting.

Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Thanks.

Walt

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