ifupdown conflicts with netbase both of which own /etc/init.d/networking

root@agent57:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cvs libapt-inst1.4 libcamel-1.2-23
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ifupdown
Suggested packages:
  rdnssd
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ifupdown
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 722 not upgraded.
743 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/53.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 19.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 895051 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ifupdown 0.7~beta2ubuntu8 (using .../ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ifupdown ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 5.0ubuntu1
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
                                                                    Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.7.1ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ifupdown 0.7~beta2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.8extraspostinst201205291835-generic 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 11 15:31:22 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: ifupdown
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-01-04 (188 days ago)