Bug#361562: tetex-extra: package includes ill-formed .bib file

[Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>]

 > I'm unsure about the other warnings.  In fact the file consists of
 > nothing but the comments and the three lines that produce these
 > options.  This seems to indicate that it is necessary to load some other
 > bibtex style file before.

I tried it in conjunction with my own bibliography, and the problems
persist. 

 > Unfortunately I'm not familiar with amslatex, and the documentation for
 > amsxport (which isn't installed with tetex, it's only in tetex-src als
 > amsxport.dtx) doesn't help me here.

I think this is purely a bibtex problem.  
I confess that looking at the .bst file, it seems to me that things
ought to be working a bit better.  In particular, the .bst file
defines a bst-option function so I don't understand why this warning:

>   Warning--entry type for "[citation-star]" isn't style-file defined
>   --line 35 of file amsxport-options.bib

is being issued.

My hope is that the people at AMS will know what's up.


Norman