Interesting. According to that ticket, applications require changes to PolicyKit and ultimately maybe their architecture (separation into non-graphical and graphical components) in order to run as root on Wayland. So it looks like you have two options:
1. Put your foot down and refuse to make those changes in apport-bug
2. Decide to re-architect apport-bug to work under Wayland
Interesting. According to that ticket, applications require changes to PolicyKit and ultimately maybe their architecture (separation into non-graphical and graphical components) in order to run as root on Wayland. So it looks like you have two options:
1. Put your foot down and refuse to make those changes in apport-bug
2. Decide to re-architect apport-bug to work under Wayland
Keep this ticket open in the latter case.