The emacs mailing list delivers sometimes, here's a question from someone today trying to upgrade Linux/Emacs for Don Knuth who hasn't updated his Ubuntu box since 2013.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-02/msg00933.html

gdb/emacs integration changes for Don Knuth

@deech
That name (Rokicki, I mean, not Knuth) sounded familiar... turns out he wrote dvips