Yeah this isn't released yet in Debian.
The actual change is 
https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/commit/38829585c4f5b67c8c2a8cbdf86761a72ace43f6

But it is not that this would be a fix, as you already said "-n 0" can help.
This just switches defaults.

And I doubt we would go ahead so late in the Cosmic release cycle.
While I can feel the pain you have with it (I really do), it is too late now.
And changing the default of something like this would have to be before Feature 
Freeze (which we passed for quite a while now).

Combining:
- users can get away with "-n 0" if they want
- huge regression risk as behavior changes (killing more by default)
=> I think this makes it non SRUable/Fixable in anything before 19.04

We will pick this up with our usual merge/sync early in 19.04 where
other tools relying on the behavior can adapt to the change.

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