Import package from a ppa from Precise to Xenial

Check the error messages and the buildlogs.

e.g.
precise had libruby1.8-dev; this package does not exist on xenial, but has been replaced by ruby2.3-dev etc.

nodejs:
  cc '-D_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE=1' '-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE' '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '-D_GNU_SOURCE' '-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' '-DCARES_STATICLIB' -I../deps/cares/include -I../deps/cares/src -I../deps/cares/config/linux -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -pthread -m32 -g --std=gnu89 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-tree-vrp -fno-omit-frame-pointer -MMD -MF /«PKGBUILDDIR»/out/Release/.deps//«PKGBUILDDIR»/out/Release/obj.target/cares/deps/cares/src/ares_cancel.o.d.raw -c -o /«PKGBUILDDIR»/out/Release/obj.target/cares/deps/cares/src/ares_cancel.o ../deps/cares/src/ares_cancel.c

cc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-m32’

Apparently the cc compiler on arm64 does not have such option.

Why do you import versions for precise to a xenial system, if there are packages for xenial already existing (even precompiled for arm64)?
Just click on the 'Newer version available# links in the package table on https://launchpad.net/~nicoaliotta/+archive/ubuntu/cartodbrpi3

how to import in my ppa the 'Newer version available' packages??

Why do you want to create duplicate of these packages in your PPA, if there is a newer version available in the official repositories?

I think that the software that i'm tryng to install needs the version of
their ppa not the newest version.
So i was tryng to "port" the precise version into Xenial version. But i'm
not able to do that.

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"So I was trying to "port" the precise version into Xenial version. But I'm not able to do that."

This will not work due to dependency issues.
Some packages for precise will depend on other packages that are available only in precise but not in xenial.

You should decide for your self:
Either stick to precise, there you should be able to work with the package version for precise
or
jump to xenial, but then you most probably have to use the source for xenial.

So if i'll compile from source that versions for Xenial arm64 they can work?

if yes all source of that packages are available?

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> "So I was trying to "port" the precise version into Xenial version. But
> I'm not able to do that."
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> This will not work due to dependency issues.
> Some packages for precise will depend on other packages that are available
> only in precise but not in xenial.
>
> You should decide for your self:
> Either stick to precise, there you should be able to work with the package
> version for precise
> or
> jump to xenial, but then you most probably have to use the source for
> xenial.
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There seems to be some misunderstanding.

1. The standard Ubuntu repositories contain a consistent set of source and binary packages. They should all be able to compile, and all dependencies should be met - within one release series.

2. If you try to transfer the source for one release series (e.g. precise) to another one (e.g. xenial), you may have to update the package, because the dependencies might not be met in the new release any more (as already written above, precise had libruby1.8-dev; this package does not exist on xenial, but has been replaced by ruby2.3-dev etc.)

3. If you import the source from another PPA, you have to examine the prerequisites of that package in the PPA and care for meeting them:
e.g. compiling node-mapnik failed in your PPA, because it depends on libmapnik-dev (>= 3.0.11~) for xenial which is not available in the standard Ubuntu repositories. but only in ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing.
Maybe importing mapnik from that PPA and building it first is sufficient that node-mapnik will then also compile (or you might to have to import other packages as well, or you might run into other problems).

4. The standard Ubuntu repositories for xenial provide pre-built packages for arm (arm64, armhf) architecture (but not all PPAs do).