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From: Matthew Roeschke <10647082+mroeschke@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:51:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid private mask cudf API in favor of Column.as_mask
 (#4758)

With cudf releasing and further developing `pylibcudf` this release, I'm starting to look at removing cudf old Cython layer (in `cudf._lib`)

Luckily I only found one usage in cugraph that is replaceable with a public API.

closes #4823

Authors:
  - Matthew Roeschke (https://github.com/mroeschke)
  - Alex Barghi (https://github.com/alexbarghi-nv)

Approvers:
  - Rick Ratzel (https://github.com/rlratzel)

URL: https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph/pull/4758