diff -Nru nginx-1.4.6/debian/changelog nginx-1.4.6/debian/changelog
--- nginx-1.4.6/debian/changelog	2015-02-09 12:25:06.000000000 -0500
+++ nginx-1.4.6/debian/changelog	2015-07-29 19:48:25.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+nginx (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.3) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium
+
+  * debian/nginx-common.nginx.init: Fix pidfile extraction, due to multiple
+    failure cases, using Debian's solution. (LP: #1314740)
+
+ -- Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:43:04 -0400
+
 nginx (1.4.6-1ubuntu3.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium
 
   * d/modules/nginx-http-push: Apply upstream bugfix. (LP: #1216817)
diff -Nru nginx-1.4.6/debian/nginx-common.nginx.init nginx-1.4.6/debian/nginx-common.nginx.init
--- nginx-1.4.6/debian/nginx-common.nginx.init	2014-03-04 17:25:28.000000000 -0500
+++ nginx-1.4.6/debian/nginx-common.nginx.init	2015-07-29 19:46:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 . /lib/init/vars.sh
 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
 
-PID=$(awk -F'[ \t;]+' '/[^#]pid/ {print $2}' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf)
+# Try to extract nginx pidfile
+PID=$(cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf | grep -Ev '^\s*#' | awk 'BEGIN { RS="[;{}]" } { if ($1 == "pid") print $2 }' | head -n1)
 if [ -z "$PID" ]
 then
 	PID=/run/nginx.pid