error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line

I am trying to package an helloworld program, and I am getting an error as
follows:
$ debian/rules binary-arch
dh_gencontrol
parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 5
dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0:
empty file
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1

The contents of my changelog file is as follows:

helloworld (1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

* This is an experimental development version of the helloworld package

-- Foo Barber <foobarber@xxxxxxxxxx> Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I am using Debian Sarge.

The reason for the old date, is because the package
is experimental development code, and will never actually be released as a
real package. I tend to use old dates to show this. I wonder if I could use
version number 0.0.0 or version number "develop" indicating the package is
a partial or incomplete development package, as opposed to a production
release.

Please advise.

Mark.

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