Hello! Thanks for reporting you need this. The fix has not been backported to Jessie.
We need a good motivation which the ftp masters accept before we can push a change to a stable release.
- Bug#814944: mariadb-connect-engine-10.0: ODBC support ap... Alan Dennis
- Bug#814944: [debian-mysql] Bug#814944: mariadb-conn... Otto Kekäläinen
