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Documentation should clearly recommend use of `--check-sigs` over `--list-sigs`
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on gnupg-users, Werner notes:

Actually --list-sigs is more of a debug command than a command users
should use to verify a key.  The real command is --check-sigs and it
does what you suggested. 

Unfortunately the man pages describes --list-sigs in detail and only in
the next paragraph --check-sigs is explained in terms of --list-sigs.
it might be better to merge them into one description with a focus on
--check-sigs.

Andrew Gallagher notes:

Or just describe --check-sigs and have --list-sigs tucked away in an
"experts only, beware" section.

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Did just that in master and 2.2.