Comment (by Roland Haas):

This seems to no longer be happening and since all of our repos are now on bitbucket or github we can expect that their certificates are accepted by all systems we encounter.

Unless there are objections I will close this ticket with 'wontfix' sometime next week.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/1812/getcomponents-needs-to-come-with-a