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Wrongly logging ordinary comments as parsing ERRORs

When parsing my system crontabs, 2 ordinary comments are assumed to be invalid, disabled jobs and an ERROR is logged:

  • from /etc/cron.d/mdadm: # Copyright © martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
  • from /etc/cron.d/sysstat: # Activity reports every 10 minutes everyday 
>>> from crontabs import CronTabs
>>> c = CronTabs()
Missing user or command in system cron line.
Missing user or command in system cron line.

Given that comment parsing for disabled jobs can never be 100% accurate, why not silently ignore such lines, or at most log them as DEBUG instead of error? In the end they are assumed to be invalid "jobs" anyway, and hopefully consider them just ordinary comments in a cron file (as they are)

python-crontab v2.6.0 installed from pip

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