Remove cudf._lib.utils usage in favor of pylibcudf

[mroeschke]

Description

In anticipation of this downstream cuDF PR removing some functionality in cudf._lib.utils rapidsai/cudf#17586, this PR replaces that usage with equivalent usage from the stable pylibcudf

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[dagardner-nv]

/ok to test

[dagardner-nv]

LGTM, thanks!

[dagardner-nv]

/ok to test

[vyasr]

What version of cudf is Morpheus on? I know that Morpheus usually lags cudf versions by a few months, so we should make sure that we are not merging this into a branch of Morpheus that won't have access to the newer cudf functionality yet either.

[dagardner-nv]

What version of cudf is Morpheus on? I know that Morpheus usually lags cudf versions by a few months, so we should make sure that we are not merging this into a branch of Morpheus that won't have access to the newer cudf functionality yet either.

Currently branch-25.02 is using cudf v24.10 we may update this prior to the release.

The unittests for Morpheus exercise this part of the code quite a bit albeit indirectly.

[dagardner-nv]

/merge