opts: deprecate ValidateMACAddress

It was a wrapper around net.ParseMAC from stdlib, so users should
use that directly.

Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 17d6a92)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <[email protected]>

Author: thaJeztah

cli/command/container/opts.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"net"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ func parse(flags *pflag.FlagSet, copts *containerOptions, serverOS string) (*con
 
 	// Validate the input mac address
 	if copts.macAddress != "" {
-		if _, err := opts.ValidateMACAddress(copts.macAddress); err != nil {
+		if _, err := net.ParseMAC(strings.TrimSpace(copts.macAddress)); err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.Errorf("%s is not a valid mac address", copts.macAddress)
 		}
 	}
@@ -883,7 +884,7 @@ func parseNetworkAttachmentOpt(ep opts.NetworkAttachmentOpts) (*networktypes.End
 		}
 	}
 	if ep.MacAddress != "" {
-		if _, err := opts.ValidateMACAddress(ep.MacAddress); err != nil {
+		if _, err := net.ParseMAC(strings.TrimSpace(ep.MacAddress)); err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.Errorf("%s is not a valid mac address", ep.MacAddress)
 		}
 		epConfig.MacAddress = ep.MacAddress

opts/opts.go

@@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ func ValidateIPAddress(val string) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // ValidateMACAddress validates a MAC address.
+//
+// Deprecated: use [net.ParseMAC]. This function will be removed in the next release.
 func ValidateMACAddress(val string) (string, error) {
 	_, err := net.ParseMAC(strings.TrimSpace(val))
 	if err != nil {

opts/opts_test.go

@@ -396,20 +396,6 @@ func TestNamedMapOpts(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestValidateMACAddress(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := ValidateMACAddress(`92:d0:c6:0a:29:33`); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ValidateMACAddress(`92:d0:c6:0a:29:33`) got %s", err)
-	}
-
-	if _, err := ValidateMACAddress(`92:d0:c6:0a:33`); err == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ValidateMACAddress(`92:d0:c6:0a:33`) succeeded; expected failure on invalid MAC")
-	}
-
-	if _, err := ValidateMACAddress(`random invalid string`); err == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ValidateMACAddress(`random invalid string`) succeeded; expected failure on invalid MAC")
-	}
-}
-
 func TestValidateLink(t *testing.T) {
 	valid := []string{
 		"name",