For Android 7, Google explored deterministic file system creation. This day, Android used ext4 (the mainstream Linux file system), and provide make_ext4fs. Recent Android version use F2FS, a file system conceived for flash storage, not plain rotating disks storage.
Recent Android use bazel, making code reusing harder, and make_ext4fs vanished.
Some forks appears, and OpenWRT's fork has also fresh patches.
Debian 8 did a tedious work of packaging android tools, dispatched in lots of packages. Ascendent compatibility has real meaning with Debian packaging : it's possible to rebuild this package done for Debian 8, in a Debian 12.
OpenWRT eradicate all dependencies and boring stuffs.
The project is now a bunch of C file, handled by a plain old Makefile.
The unique dependency is zlib, and you can statically linked it.
Even glibc is not a dependency, you can use musl.
Here is two Dockerfiles to build make_ext4fs.
# git, make, and that's all
make build-openwrt
# The Debian danse for build the old package and installing it
make build-debian
# You can fetch built debian packages
make deb