[FEA] Consider removing tight pinning on librdkafka
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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
It appears we've historically had a tight pinning on `librdkafka` used in `libcudf_kafka` (probably to ensure build stability of `libcudf_kafka`?). However as temporarily solved in https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/21951, this tight pinning is not guaranteed to be solvable in a conda environment overtime as we continue to support more Python versions.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
AFAICT we only use the `librdkafka`'s [public API](https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka?tab=readme-ov-file#documentation) in libcudf_kafka so if we trust the API stability (there were no API changes when upgrading in https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/pull/21951), it should be safe to just unpin `librdkafka`
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
* Status quo
* Consider deprecating (lib)cudf_kafka all together?
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