I believe this was resolved in Debian and in Ubuntu as of yakkety and newer. pps-tools is a build-dependency now and the kernel has has CONFIG_PPS=m for a while.
Marking Fix Released unless someone comes back and says otherwise. ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826873 Title: ATOM refclock driver not compiled into ntpd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/826873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs