Looks like all the required work will wait for 18.04, both Debian & Ubuntu have not started working around the pkexec problem not working with wayland.
https://www.neowin.net/news/debian-10-development-builds-switch-to- wayland -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Edubuntu Bugsquad, which is subscribed to italc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713313 Title: Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-offline/+bug/1713313/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs Post to : edubuntu-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp