diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a95b7e502d9dbd40a3448e9f586c5ecff2742770..d215434be949cd522971ce37383719d92d85baa6 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@
 # package maintainers to append LDFLAGS
 #export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
 
+export TRUSTY_BUILD=$(shell test $$(gcc -dumpversion | cut -d. -f1) -lt 5 && echo -n 1)
+
+export CC=$(shell test -n "$(TRUSTY_BUILD)" && echo -n "/usr/bin/clang-3.9" || echo -n "$$CC")
+export CXX=$(shell test -n "$(TRUSTY_BUILD)" && echo -n "/usr/bin/clang++-3.9" || echo -n "$$CXX")
+
+export DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = $(shell test -n "$(TRUSTY_BUILD)" && echo -n '-std=c++14 -stdlib=libc++')
 
 %:
 	dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake --parallel