Apologies for the cross posting.
Since Sun 10 Jan, I switched one of the servers I have in the pool,
ntpmon.dcs1.biz , to ntpsec 0.9.0 , with gpsd 17-dev
I am happy to report that over the last 5 days, all is well, and the server continues to chug along happily.
I plan to run both the ntpsec and gpsd on the git HEAD, daily.
Thanks to Eric, Hal, Gary, Ask, et al; with a special shoutout to Beat for the git teach/cheat sheet.