Comment 3 for bug 228460

This has been fixed in lsb 3.2-12ubuntu1 i intrepid.

killproc now has the lines:
if [ -z "$sig" -o "$sig" = 15 -o "$sig" = TERM ]; then
    is_term_sig=yes
fi

so only if killproc is called with signal not set or set as sigtem, a sigterm will be done.